…One recension reached to the beginning of al-Qāhir’s caliphate (320–2/932–4), the very year when he “was made patriarch of Alexandria (ṣuyyira… baṭriyarkan ʿalā l-Iskandarīya).” Others contain “additions (ziyādāt)” not in the original, which Yaḥyā knows because “I saw the copy of the original itself, as well as other, different copies of the book, and the end of its contents is up to the caliphate of al-Rāḍī (322–9/934–40).”¹ … But don’t tell me…²